This patch creates the infrastructure to help the construction of IV
generator templates that wrap around AEAD algorithms by adding an IV
generator to them. This is useful for AEAD algorithms with no built-in
IV generator or to replace their built-in generator.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Some algorithms always require manual IV construction. For instance,
the generic CCM algorithm requires the first byte of the IV to be manually
constructed. Such algorithms are always used by other algorithms equipped
with their own IV generators and do not need IV generation per se.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This patch adds the underlying givcrypt operations for aead and associated
support elements. The rationale is identical to that of the skcipher
givcrypt operations, i.e., sometimes only the algorithm knows how the
IV should be generated.
A new request type aead_givcrypt_request is added which contains an
embedded aead_request structure with two new elements to support this
operation. The new elements are seq and giv. The seq field should
contain a strictly increasing 64-bit integer which may be used by
certain IV generators as an input value. The giv field will be used
to store the generated IV. It does not need to obey the alignment
requirements of the algorithm because it's not used during the operation.
The existing iv field must still be available as it will be used to store
intermediate IVs and the output IV if chaining is desired.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
As it is authsize is an algorithm paramter which cannot be changed at
run-time. This is inconvenient because hardware that implements such
algorithms would have to register each authsize that they support
separately.
Since authsize is a property common to all AEAD algorithms, we can add
a function setauthsize that sets it at run-time, just like setkey.
This patch does exactly that and also changes authenc so that authsize
is no longer a parameter of its template.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This patch adds crypto_aead which is the interface for AEAD
(Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data) algorithms.
AEAD algorithms perform authentication and encryption in one
step. Traditionally users (such as IPsec) would use two
different crypto algorithms to perform these. With AEAD
this comes down to one algorithm and one operation.
Of course if traditional algorithms were used we'd still
be doing two operations underneath. However, real AEAD
algorithms may allow the underlying operations to be
optimised as well.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Herbert Xu